People get ready for the heartbeat (We're heartbeat props) Everybody get for the heartbeat props (We're heartbeat props)
We're gonna make it with the heartbeat props, y'all (We're heartbeat props) It's time to get busy the heartbeat props (We're giving props)
I give my man props 'cause living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Check it out, y'all, proper is what we're giving (We're heartbeat props)
Uh, I my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know the proper respect is what we're giving
like you wondered each day if the Underground Is going to down with the funky beats Even if you know that I'm a junkie for a bump funky And a for the loop, see, a groupie for the old one-twoiee
A bass freak would say Peace to DU I like the way you do me I love to go on about the funk, matter of I'd love to be another front runner
But first we deal with the fronters So I can't go on, time to drop a few bombs Get busy, G, go on and 'em to school Yeah, it's spread the jewels
I ask you about Malcolm and you tell me that he's Farrakhan you can't seem to buy a ticket And what my man's got to say or wrong, don't you think that he deserves a play?
'Cause living for you and you and you and you The brother X tried but he died to get through So why wait until the heartbeat Yo, go on and give my man his
If really that down then act what you say KRS and need support today I see you posing with the Dr King hanging on wall Only difference is Chuck give you that call
To march on Friday, yeah, kind of frightening Let me move so I get hit by the bolt of lightning Striking you down 'cause fronting A dead leader can't tax your Therefore he's not a threat to your time
All the and the dragging Yo, I got something to do day Yeah, you sound like an old nagging Fuck that fronting, fuck fronting We're pumping up the brothers 'cause the brothers keep it
You got it all you wait for the TV to tell you what's going on Don't you on the mic ,yeah, they never get it right why you see we gotta thank God, y'all For like Ice Cube
'Cause tell the record straight Yo, my man's a prophet too, yo, god, you think he So do the right thing, it's not a black or a thing We're here to let you know it's just a being thing We're pulling out all 'cause it's time give heartbeat props
(We're heartbeat props) I give my man 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) respect is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know, don't you know that proper respect is what we're
(We're giving props) You're giving more respect to a dead man you do my man And my man's got the in his hand (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
I'm the type of guy sly like a fox An honor roll in the school of hard knocks There was different type of brother that I used to up to But I'm still giving where the props are due
But let me start with a fool I don't give a about I wanted to give a you out To the nigga who went out on a He was a roody-poo for Huey Newton
But I'm thanking God for niggas like Slim And the chick the ran to see She was the fantasy Turner, the living legacy And still got you tripping off the legs you see Another chick they to beg to see
Was Josephine Baker, she had them They loved the way she her money-maker But why did it take them so decades To give a little to who they ran rave to see
a dark complexion She was sex symbol Marilyn Monroe But her stopped before They gave to the old pro
It took a great man to mold So I want to give props to my pops because he those But there's a to break necks and throw bolos Be a cold bro and throw low
When you want to the shows of your foes 'Cause foes are that you got to break like windows Check it, when respect it's time to break a nose But give before the soul goes
Well, I suppose respect is respect'll get ya So I'm giving gifts before they're stiff like the pose In the pictures of Vogue and flashy fashion You be thumbing in 'em, to Beverly Johnson She was the first black in 'em
Pee, drop the bomb and end the pressure the menace Smith & Wesson clear the lesson that your mama Mama gave PeeWee the same threats, she used measures me to give her the full respect or get my ass kicked It was my intention to relent just till the last she goes she'll roll over in a solid gold casket
When I was young Ali had me sprung he was the champ, as the champion he was my idol Yo, they took his title when he take the gun And fight in Vietnam the only way he felt, then he won the belt
Now want me in the army but they can't harm me I ain't no punk, I ain't under man to Uncle Tommy Props to Islam, getting brothers together before the big bomb Blast out, before we're all We to see that we got to start giving the props to the living
(We're giving props) I said I give my man props 'cause living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Uh, I said proper is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I said I my man props 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I said I give my man props he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know that respect is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) You're giving respect to a dead man than you do my man And my man's got the in his hand (Why wait until the stops?) (Heartbeat props)
(We're heartbeat props) giving more respect to a dead man than you do my man And my man's got the plans in his (Why wait until the stops?) respect is what we're giving
(We're giving props) Uh, I said I give my man props 'cause living (Why wait until the stops?) Don't you know that proper respect is what we're
(We're heartbeat props) I give my man props 'cause living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is what giving
We're giving props Why wait until the heartbeat giving heartbeat props (Heartbeat props)
(We're heartbeat props) You're giving more to a dead man than you do my man And my got the plans in his hand (Why until the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
Yeah, Spike Lee, Alex Haley, Brand Nubian, sister Whoopi Gregory, X-Clan, sister Isis, BDP, Muhammad Ali, Stevie Wonder Poor Righteous Teachers, Andrew Jackson, Washington Sister Sarah Sahad Ali, Public Enemy, Stokley
Sister Oprah Winfrey, yeah, Jackson, nuff respect, Paris Gangstarr, Gil Heron, George the fuck Clinton, Louis Farrakhan Sister Queen Latifah, Bill Cosby, sister Davis The entire Nation of Islam, nucka, what I'm saying?
Afrika Bambaataa, Miles Davis, sister Assata Shakur Once known as Joanne Chesimard, Robert Townsend, Nelson Karreem Adul-Jabbar, the Panther Party, James Earl Jones The FOIs, nucka, Howard E. Rollins, sister Naomi, yeah, nuff